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In Washington, the DOE’s Energy Blog identified the Diamond Green renewable diesel project as “a biodiesel refinery that will triple America’s domestic biodiesel production.” US biodiesel capacity, which is at 2.2 billion gallons, will not in fact triple with the completion of the 137 million gallon Diamond Green project, which doesn’t make biodiesel (a/k/a mono-alkyl […]
In Washington state, the Bioproducts, Sciences and Engineering Laboratory at Washington State University Tri-Cities is working on a $1.5 million DOE-funded pilot project to test the BioChemCat process for turning agricultural waste into fuel. Teamed with the Port of Benton, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and startup company Clean-Vantage, the project may be tested with wheat […]
In Washington, five major biofuels associations called on Congress “to stand firm in the face of calls to waive or repeal the groundbreaking biofuels provisions included in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), including the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).” The group emphasized “the domestic biofuels industry is already creating jobs, helping to […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, dropped 0.51 percent to 87.37, as ethanol sunk. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) slipped 0.62 percent to $31.81, while Aventine Renewables (AVRW) lost 18.92 percent to $15.00. Among other equities, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) fell 6.98 percent to $0.40. Overall, declines led advances […]
Algae industry awash in new technologies to address key commercialization barrier: will they pluck algae, and the algae industry, out of the water? Last month in the Digest we ranked “Algae extraction” at #5 on the list of “Transformers” – technologies that would rock the bio world. We wrote: “While we are on the subject […]
ZeaChem announced it has signed a long-term binding term sheet with GreenWood Tree Farm Fund, managed by GreenWood Resources, to supply hybrid poplar woody biomass for its first commercial cellulosic biorefinery. ZeaChem will integrate feedstock from a portion of GTFF’s residual fiber with local agricultural residue suppliers to achieve feedstock costs 50% less compared to […]
In Indiana, Global Energy Resources is expected to begin operating its soybean oil-to-biodiesel plant in New Haven on June 1 when it anticipates receiving its air quality permit from the state’s Dept. of Environmental Managements. It secured federal EPA approval in April. More on the story.
In Iowa, the Iowa Power Fund Board has approved $1.5 million for Growth Design Energy Mt. Valley to build its 3MGY non-food waste oils-to-biodiesel facility in Forest City. The fund also approved more than $600,000 for the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Services to expand existing Green Corps and AmeriCorps programs to support the training of […]
In California, BlueFire Renewables announced an operating loss of $461,000 for Q1 2011 on revenues of $83,000, with cash and cash equivalents on hand of $18,000 as of May 10, according to its SEC filing. The company has raised $950,000 since December in investments and loans and “intends to fund its operations with reimbursements under […]
